Two Union residents charged with drug possession, cocaine trafficking

Thursday

Dec 5, 2013 at 10:46 PM

Two Union residents were charged with drug possession and cocaine trafficking on Wednesday, according to arrest warrants.

Two Union residents were charged with drug possession and cocaine trafficking on Wednesday, according to arrest warrants.Latoria Likita Beasley, 25, of 305 S. Pinckney St. and Ernest Lamont Jeter, 38, of 313 Lakewood Drive, were stopped after an officer saw a dark tinted cover over the tag of the Honda they were in.After asking Beasley and Jeter to step out of the car, the responding officer had his K-9 sniff around the vehicle, where the dog detected the presence of drugs, according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office incident report.

The report states that after a search of the car, 37 pills in a bottle with a torn label and three packages of cocaine were found. The pills found in the car were hydrocodone, the report states. The cocaine weighed a total of 7.8 pounds, according to the report.Jeter remained at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility on Thursday. Beasley also remained in jail Thursday on a $130,000 bond.